self-denialn.

1605 J. Smyth Paterne True Prayer 64 This selfe-deniall, which is opposed to selfe-loue.

1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 62 This excellent state is not obtainable without Self-denial, and suffering now and then a little gentle Hunger.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 248. ⁋1 The great Foundation of civil Virtue is Self-Denial.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 379 I have not writ to you..these many Months, a great piece of selfe-denial.

1834 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. I. v. 79 Let your very rising from your bed be a self-denial; let your meals be self-denials.

1892 Polit. Sci. Q. 7 728 The vigor, self-denial, ability and courage with which those colonists..fought for their deliverance from the French peril.

1906 Sewanee Rev. 14 70 A man's life is not the sum of his self denials but the sum of his affirmative experiences.

1989 J. Taylor Circus of Ambition i. 2 Falwell did not live as if he thought the world was coming to an end. Self-denial—sackcloth and sandals—was not his style.

2005 S. Chibnall Brighton Rock i. 5 As the demobbed shivered in their prefabs..Atlee's trumpeting of the spiritual virtues of self-denial must have sounded cracked.